“- Stu: So you're an actor?
- The Caller: Yes, one of your pathetic failed ones. You don't have to come find me and ruin me, I can't get work as it is. I've done some off-Broadway, some off-Manhattan, but that dried up. Now I wait tables, clean toilets, anything I can to make the rent. I'm a walking cliché.”
Colin Farrell - Stu Shepard
Kiefer Sutherland - The Caller

“Prior to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - the first one in 2003 - I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I'm saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.”
Johnny Depp

“For everybody, the tide comes in, the tide goes out - if you're an actor, particularly.”
Alan Arkin

“All actors should experience public failure.”
Olivia Wilde

“People think that we're crazy. It will never work. You're going to fail... Those are the beginning of every great success story.”
Ione Skye - Diane Court